Produced by La Clinica de la Raza
Just like the acceptance of smoking has changed, we have to change the acceptance of the use of violence in our society.
The Story
Members of a community-based men’s group share how the group has transformed their lives and improved their relationships with their families.
The Back Story
Since 1971, La Clínica de la Raza offered low-cost quality health care services for multilingual and multicultural populations at 23 San Francisco bay area locations in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties. La Clinic’s comprehensive services include: pediatrics, family medicine, women's health care, mental health services, dental and vision care and health education.
La Clinica offers these services regardless of people's ability to pay or insurance coverage. To serve its diverse community, La Clínica hires health practitioners who are fluent in Spanish, English, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic and Amharic. La Clinica also recruits doctors, nurses, health educators and other providers who come from the same cultures as their patients.
La Clinica de la Raza has completely embraced digital storytelling. La Clinica’s ambitious project created a ten-minute documentary that chronicles the personal stories of their men’s group and the men’s experience with masculinity and violence.
The Outcomes
Despite some technical challenges, La Clinica completed the documentary, had it captioned in English and screened it at a local community event and at an international conference in Mexico – both times to overwhelmingly positive responses.
La Clinica directly involved the participants in the production of the projects, imparting technical knowledge as well as facilitating the content.
